Tina Knowles Quotes

I think I'm cool. That's all that matters.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

It's so important for girls to respect themselves and not put themselves down and say, 'Oh, my life is horrible,' and 'I'm not pretty enough.' How do you know? There's this energy people give off that people can be drawn to.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

I had low self-esteem.

Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

Frankly, the idea that we need to be beautiful, if you really think about it, it's odd. But if you can turn it inward and see yourself as beautiful, that's what changes the world.

Self-esteem should not be confused with self-confidence. Self-confidence is believing in your competence and your ability to do something, whereas self-esteem is believing in your goodness.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves.

I'm not cute.

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.

I don't always understand my worth.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.

'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.

I don't think I was ravishing, but I think I was pretty.

I've never seen myself as sexy. I see myself as a goofball.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.